I strongly recommend that all children go to bed before nine o'clock, because with my years of experience, I find that sleep is too important for children. For children aged 0-7 or even older, the most important thing is to eat, sleep and play. In China, it is easy for us to pay attention to children's diet and hope that children will eat more. Most parents want their children to eat more meat and vegetables. But in fact, for a child's whole life state, because of the child's physical health, his inner things and his behavior habits, the life we bring to the child from 0 to 7 years old has the greatest impact on him.

Among them, sleep plays a central role.

If children don't play well, they must be mentally and physically unhealthy. It is impossible for children not to eat. However, what plays a central role here is sleep. Children who sleep well can play normally. He plays well, his body is exhausted, his energy is exhausted, and he can eat well. Play well and eat well to ensure that he sleeps well. Poor sleep will continue to affect children's play, including eating, and then eating and playing will also affect sleep. So the most important of these three things is sleep.

A rhythmic life is especially important for children's health throughout their lives.

Just like in kindergarten, it is very important for children's health, especially their physical health, to do what from what time to what time and live this rhythmic life. Even the most important. Because physical health will affect mental health.

In the whole rhythm of life, the most important thing to ensure is sleep.

Generally speaking, if a child can go to bed and get up on time, it is not easy to get emotional. Children who sleep well are less likely to get emotional. However, many parents said that "my child gets up in the morning", "my child has a particularly bad temper" and "my child looks like his father", and found many reasons for themselves. But as far as I know, if children go to bed early, they usually don't cry when they get up. I'm basically sure about this, and I don't rule out special circumstances.

Understanding of sleep in traditional Chinese medicine

Sleep supports liver development.

The essence of China ancient culture-Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine has a saying: "The liver stores blood, and blood gives up the soul." Then there is an idiom in Neijing called "Liver governs strategy". He is a man with developed liver and organs, and he is a man with more courage. But how can we make our liver organs develop well? How can we support the development of the liver? Sleep! Sleep is very important! In the Qing Dynasty, there was a health expert named Li Yu, who mentioned that the key to health care was "sleeping first". Then there is a passage in Huangdi Neijing, that is, Dr. Eric from our lecture hall of traditional Chinese medicine mentioned that "people lie with blood, which belongs to the liver, and the liver can see when it receives blood, and it can hold it when it holds blood, that is, it can be photographed when it receives blood." When we are lying down, the blood flow in the liver is seven times that when we are standing. Only when the blood supply to the liver is sufficient can we ensure that our eyes can see, our feet can walk, our hands can grasp and our fingers can take things.

The increase of liver blood flow is not only beneficial to enhance the function of liver cells, but also to improve the detoxification ability of liver. Because our liver has a very important function, it can synthesize and decompose protein and detoxify. Some things we eat on our bodies may be toxic, that is, we need the liver to decompose them, and its role is very important. Sleep is very important, because sleep can promote the function of liver cells and enhance the function of liver cells. Sleep can promote the development of the body, prevent aging, prevent diseases, improve immunity, improve memory and learning efficiency, and then replenish enough energy for the human body and prolong life.

Sleep is our best way to rest, and it is very healing.

When our body is very tired, how to relieve fatigue? What is the most effective method for us? I think it is particularly important: sleep. When you are particularly tired, have a good sleep and you will feel refreshed the next day. When we are in a bad mood, those things almost disappear after a sleep, and maybe we can figure out a lot of things. What should I do when I am particularly stressed and mentally exhausted? Let's go to bed! ! Sleep is our best way to rest, and it is very therapeutic.

The influence of sleep on children

Sleep is good for children's growth.

Children need not only what we said above, but also the growth and development of their internal organs, so sleep is of great significance to children. Unlike us adults, the liver, kidneys and other internal organs have grown up, but the children have not. These growth and development of children occur during sleep. We know that when sleeping, the pituitary gland secretes growth hormone. We all know that sleeping can make you grow taller. Why? Because the growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland supports our body to grow taller.

Sleep contributes to the development of children's brains and internal organs.

But sleep is not only for children to grow taller, but also for brains and internal organs. That's it. Sleep is very important for children. This is a Chinese doctor from China.

The significance of sleep at Waldorf point

From the perspective of Waldorf education, the function of sleep actually coincides with our Chinese medicine, but it is more spiritual and profound. The most important growth task for children aged 0-7 is to grow up and build a material body, so as to support children to do things they should do in the future, such as learning and socializing.

Waldorf's educational philosophy also believes that all kinds of information, feelings and intuition we receive during the day will be transformed into all organs and tissues of the body, and then they will cooperate with these organs and tissues to grow, develop and repair, and only when they are asleep will these activities be carried out to help children regain their vitality. So what are the core organs involved in these activities? It is the liver, not the liver, that participates in these activities, helps the child grow and develop, and then restores his vitality for him to use the next day.

1 Children who sleep less lack a sense of strength.

What we see at work is that those children who sleep less and stay up late are generally pale, and then they are not strong enough and weak inside. When playing, it is difficult for them to join the group and they are easily bullied. Generally, some aggressive children will habitually bully those who have no strength. If you hold these children's hands or hug them, you will feel that their vitality is weak and their hands are soft. Moreover, some people have strong vitality and will radiate this power, but children who sleep less have less power.

The liver stores liver sugar for the child's activities the next day.

Why is this happening? This is related to the operation of the liver. How does the liver work at the material level? Every day from 3 pm to 3 am the next day, it will assimilate, that is, store liver sugar. What is it for? That is, the need for activities after getting up the next day. The energy we exercise every day, especially for children, is mainly sugar, because other organs of children are underdeveloped. Where do these sweets come from? They are produced by liver assimilation.

3 children stay up all night. The liver can't store glycogen, and it has to be overdrawn.

If the child does not sleep at the right time, it means that the child has no sugar. If he doesn't sleep at the right time, he will not only be unable to store the next day's liver sugar, but also have to overdraw. Therefore, staying up late is particularly harmful to children. If you stay up late, the assimilation that should have been carried out will be reversed, and the original stored liver sugar will be converted into glucose for digestion to meet the needs of staying up late, so that the spirit will be bad the next day. Therefore, only going to bed early can repair the liver. Restore vitality, which is the operation of the liver at the material level.

Sleep is the basis for children to cultivate willpower and bring courage to children.

How does it work internally (on our spiritual level)? The liver is the foundation of willpower, which can drive the living body to put ideas into action. A healthy liver can give us courage, just like a general with an army, decisive and full of vitality. What is willpower? Look at us adults. Some people say that I will open a company today and a tea shop tomorrow. I have many ideas, but I just don't do it. I just want to be old. Some people did it without telling him, and some people said it for countless times. Then, as children, we may see that many children can't do anything, can't even wear their own clothes, don't even bother to draw a picture with a pen, or don't have the strength to draw, because this child's willpower is not enough, and his willpower is not well developed, so he can't turn his thoughts into actions. There are many such people in China. Especially those only children, like the little princess and the little emperor, care nothing, so their willpower will not develop.

Nowadays, children in cities generally sleep late, which will also lead to their poor general condition. The children who sleep well in our kindergarten are all children who play well, that is, children who have rich social life and can meet their development needs. On the contrary, if children always stay up late and have weak liver qi, they will be weak, timid and timid. This kind of situation in kindergarten, if mother is not sensitive, will not think it is a problem, but it will be more obvious after primary school. If children get enough sleep in primary school, they can support the normal metabolism of cells and tissues and plant what they have learned during the day deeply in their brains.

Children who go to bed early at night have better memory and mobility, and will be stronger than the average person. This is an operation inside the liver. Children who sleep well have strong actions, and any idea can be put into action. Then he can make a decision when he meets something. Some people never make a decision. It is because I have worked at home and school for so many years that I have met many parents. They don't decide whether their children should receive this unconventional education, and then let the husband choose and the parents choose. In a word, she just can't decide. There are many such mothers.

Of course, consultation is appropriate, but the final decision is made by others and you are not responsible. I don't think they have the courage to make a decision. This may be related to the education of adults, or it may be related to the sleep of adults. These things themselves may be intertwined, not necessarily decided by which side.

The liver provides warmth for children before the age of 9 and promotes their intellectual development.

For children, the liver not only stores glycogen for children's next day's activities, but also helps children develop willpower and bring us courage, and also plays a very important role (mainly for children). The liver provides internal warmth for children before the age of 9 and promotes their intellectual development. In other words, before the child is nine years old, his own ability to regulate body temperature has not been achieved, but he will rely on the liver. The decomposition of sugar provided by the liver raises the body temperature. Warm body can make the nervous system develop well, and the better the nervous system develops, the more helpful it is to the development of intelligence. In other words, going to bed early can make the liver sugar function normal, which is helpful to the development of children's intelligence and thinking. Chinese medicine also says that the liver governs strategy, so whether the liver is healthy or not is related to a person's thinking ability and problem-solving ability.

Let's imagine what kind of state our body is when we feel very cold. We are in a state of contraction and tension. Our nervous system is not relaxed, so warmth is very important for children.

Love and warmth can help children adapt and become a healthy person.

Warmth is very important for children's growth and health. Love and warmth can help children adapt and become a healthy person.

Based on this, we suggest:

(1) Preschool children, that is, children aged 0 to 7, had better go to bed from 6:30 to 8: 00 at night.

(2) Adults go to bed from nine to ten. I suggest parents take their children to bed at 9: 00 at the latest, that is, between 8: 00 and 8: 30.

(3) Every child is different. We recommend that children from one and a half to more than two years old sleep at least 14 hours a day.

(4) Children aged 3-5 sleep at least 12 hours a day.